A Baby Receives Everything from His Mother

Sunday, 17 Tammuz 5785 - "It is impossible to understand the speech of Moshe, only Miriam understood," these are his holy words:

We have just learned about Miriam the Prophetess, that she did not fear her father.

From the time she was a little girl of five and a half, she did not fear her father (Amram), who was the tzaddik of the generation through whom the entire Torah was transmitted.

Amram was younger than Yocheved by a month or a year; Yocheved was 130, so he was 129.

She did not fear her father; she said to him, "Know that you are worse than Pharaoh. You are my father, it is true, but you are worse than Pharaoh."

What did Pharaoh do, after all? He said, "I will throw the boys into the Nile, but not the girls!" He kept the girls alive, he left them, he wanted to marry them, for the Egyptians to marry. It makes no difference to them; anyone can take 4 or 5 wives. Fifty children become 500 grandchildren, 5,000 great-grandchildren.

Miriam said to him, "What is this? How can you cast them all into the Nile? You are worse than Pharaoh; Pharaoh casts the boys, but you cast the girls as well!"

So what is this? Are girls more important than boys? Everything comes from the girls. The woman gives birth and the baby is with her for nine months; after that, the baby receives everything from the mother.

She said to her father, "With one Tikkun HaKlali, you can annul all the decrees." Usually, the woman is right; she is more responsible. It is her baby; she brought him into the world.

She told him to bring her mother back to her father, and what happens? She is in Tzur; it is forbidden to see her at all. And suddenly, she sees that all of Batya's maidens are dying; they all died there one after the other.

And now Batya is going down to the Nile; she was entirely covered in leprosy, entirely covered in sores, entirely covered in boils, entirely covered in itching. She goes down to the Nile, she just immerses, she touches the basket - all the leprosy disappeared, all the sores disappeared.

She understood that there was a holy child here, a child of the holy of holies. She brings him to Pharaoh. Pharaoh sees that he is circumcised - "What, this is a Jewish child? Why did you bring him to me? Why didn't you strangle him?!"

She says to him, "No, this is an Ishmaelite child. We have already been in Egypt for 320 years, after the birth of Yitzchak, and Ishmael was born 14 years earlier. The Ishmaelites are already circumcising themselves; two billion Ishmaelites are circumcising. Half the world is circumcising itself, 2 billion Ishmaelites. What do you want, Father? I did nothing against you, Heaven forbid!"

And then Moshe takes off his crown. He plays with him, hugs him; Pharaoh began to love him and he plays with him, puts him on his lap. Moshe takes off his crown, and the astrologers said, "We are finished, this is no longer a good sign."

They reached the conclusion that they would place two bowls, one with gold dinars and the second with coals. And then he reached out his hand for the gold dinars, and Gavriel came and diverted his hand to the coals. Moshe actually took a coal in his hand and put it in his mouth to cool it, and then he became heavy of speech.

Because the tzaddik is heavy of speech; the tzaddik cannot be understood at all. Except for Miriam. The Rebbe says that it is impossible to understand the tzaddik, because the explanations of the Torah, the well, is the explanations of the Torah, and this is only through Miriam. Because only Miriam can understand Moshe - no one can understand the tzaddik except for the woman, only her.

And therefore, the wife of On ben Pelet, she understood. "The wisdom of women builds her house, but folly tears it down with her own hands" (Proverbs 14:1).

"The wisdom of women," this is the wife of On ben Pelet. She said to him, "What are you getting involved with Moshe for? Have you lost your mind? Are you crazy? Drink a bottle of wine." She brought him a bottle of vodka and gave him to drink, and he fell asleep for 24 hours. He woke up, and everyone had already been swallowed by the earth.

But Korach's wife was wicked, because everything depends on the woman. If the woman is wicked, the husband is wicked; if the woman is righteous, the husband is righteous - it depends on which woman one receives.